J2F-4 DUCK Pearl Harbour

BuNo 1649 is an earlier J2F-4. She was taken on charge by U.S. Navy in December, 1939, was based in Pearl Harbour on 7 december 1941 and served throughout the Second World war. Having been sold by the War Assets Administration in 1947, she acquired the civil registration N63850. In 1955 the aircraft crash landed and sank in the Bahamas, remaining underwater until salvaged in 1991. The restoration project went through two or three owners and consumed parts from another J2F before her first flight in 2005. She was restored in her original markings, and was grand champion at the EAA show at Oshkosh in 2007. In the last few years, she has been sold to the Mid-America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas.